[…]s and high days and holidays. And then he joined the army and became a drummer in the Royal Fusiliers, and a buglerJohn Taylor: Was that in the First World WarBill Cotton Jr: Yes, the First World War, then he became a pilot, crashed in his plane. And when he came out he played professional football […]
[…]- really about hygiene. It sounds terribly dull, it was not dull at all - about the problems of living as a community. But it was about health, about world health really. And the last five minutes was a reconstruction, it ran about forty minutes and the last five or ten minutes was a reconstruction […]
[…]e. He stayed in the film industry to the best of my knowledge. However, we were very lucky because there were certain developments going on including world inaction, which was The story was that Grierson invented the name world in action in Canada. When he was appointed to the COI, to run the COI he[…]
[…]n the provinces or anything: fast track is join a very small niche magazine in London.”Nursing Times or whatever – in my case The Financial World. And that will be a much, much easier stepping stone to try for journalism. And before that I’d wanted to be in the theatre. Originally as an ac[…]
[…]y, and Marlene Dietrich's life story.RF: This is for fan magazines in England.VG: Yes and for newspapers.RF: Any particular newspaper.VG: News of the World, I did the Marlene Dietrich for, and it was the Sunday Dispatch that I did the Mae West for. And then I did the odd thing like there was an Engl[…]
[…]have I ever done to deserve these wonderful opportunities that I got.And further more I was being paid, I’m in Zanzibar, I’m on the other side of the world in an exotic place er I’m getting an allowance and I’m getting a salary. Anyway, what happened then and this is where the luck come into00:18:23[…]
[…]ything in her family, she was just a natural performer and in fact when they first married, she went on tour with my father just after the war, Great World War, and appeared in a show, she travelled in a show and appeared in it for quite a while. But she was...JPH: [incomp – 22:27] or[…]
[…]hers, Chan, of course, who was a regular soldier to all intents and purposes and had been to university and fought with some distinction in the First World War worked for Mick at Ealing and indeed before then at Gaumont. And it's quite amusing that there was I understand at the old Gaumont &nb[…]
[…]r for engine bomas. Which was slightly shattering to me because I was still 18 and I was by seven years the youngest four engined bomber pilot in the world. I say there's a certain amount of confidence because I certainly wasn't the RAF I know. And as best I'm assured the Russians the Germans and th[…]
[…] you obviously was a bit lethargic and a bit stupid and a bit thick and Bryan. I shall never forget I mean I didn't mind this and I think he did me a world of good. You did give me a rather I respect very much call you I think. Anyway that went right through Blossom Time and then in the next picture[…]
